Eutopia presented as a successful experiment in socialism and free love, although there is very little sex outside marriage and no marriage before age 22. Easy divorce. Women are financially independent, and children are raised communally with parents free to spend time with them. Both men and women work four hours a day. Land and houses owned by the state. Married women are allotted houses. Single people of both sexes live in what they call phalansteries or buildings where each person has a private room, and there are extensive communal facilities. See also 1884 Bellamy, The Way Out.

Reform tract that uses the utopian form. Limit on profit. More equal income distribution. All need to work. Eight hour work week. Limited inheritance. No monopolies. Free legal system. No individual property in land. Free, compulsory education as part of the process of improving the political system. Improved health care. See also his 1889 An Experiment in Marriage.